Much of bad design isn't bad design — it's work done without design. Somebody had to fulfill a commitment and there was no time to think or room to change course. The way companies make commitments is the first design problem. It constrains everything afterward.

1/ OK, this is an infuriating startup experience: You ship an experiment that's +10% in your conversion funnel. Then your revenue/installs/whatever goes up by +10% right? Wrong :( Turns out usually it goes up a little bit, or maybe not at all. Why is that?

Today, a guy at work brought us candies made with salty liquorice that taste really really awful 😖 So an idea flew around the office: "when you break the build you eat a candy".

Now everybody is super careful and tests (more) their code 😂

Solis Mac app for live design: integrates with your code editor, to show real time, multi-viewport preview.

Rust in production at Figma If you're interested in Rust, some lessons here about performance (fast, low memory) and ease of us (not quite there yet). TL;DR they ended up with a Node/Rust hybrid solution.

The authors also suggest that ascribing blame or community sanctions may be less effective than offering community members a way to "save face" "without having to admit that they deliberately violated the community's norms." They describe a system called stopit designed at MIT to address computer-based harassment. When users reported harassment, the system sent a message to the alleged harasser claiming that the alleged harasser's account may have been compromised and urging them to change their password.

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The sheer amount of detail that went into Heathrow Airport's #MayThe4th sign is lovely. Note that the "next info" on the Kessel run flight is the release date of SOLO. Also thumbs up for "possibly a trap" on the Death Star flight.

Steve Rogalsky From a Twitter debate about "craftsmen", and the need to deprecate this gendered term:

A fond memory from my university days: I was seeking to understand why we can't use "mankind" or "men" for all cases. A wise woman asked me to name 10 famous men. I named 10 famous males, and no females. Her point exactly.